In the last few years, there has been a price collapse of projectors, quality video cameras, and video editing software that has helped enable a wealth of all sorts of documentary videos and DVDs and the ability for community groups to show them.
New ways of funding and distributing films have also emerged. In Forest Row [...]
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While change is constant, we are not always clear about how change happens in society and what we can do to bring about the change we want. So where do we start? One way is by adopting new ways of doing things ourselves, “being the change we want to see in the world”. So how [...]
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The nature of each Transition Conference venue both impacts the conference and seems to reflect the state of the movement. In Liverpool at Hope University for our fifth Conference it felt hard to make it into our own – the meeting space was strung along long corridors, with noisy acoustics, and overall a sense of [...]
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Text of my talk at Big Climate Connection in Uckfield on 20th May 2011.
Speakers:
Charles Hendry MP
Darren Shirley: Sustainable Homes Campaign Manager, WWF UK
Mike Grenville, Transition Network and local activist
John Lanchbery, Head of International Climate Change Policy, RSPB
Dr Sarah Wykes, CAFOD
For more info on the Big Climate Connection visit www.thebigconnection.org
We face a series of dire problems [...]
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A project to put solar panels on the roof of Harvey’s brewery in Lewes is tantalisingly close with only about £20,000 still to be raised to be able to place the order.
The Harvey’s array on the beer chill roof will be one of Britain’s first community-owned solar power stations. Guaranteed for 25 years, there is [...]
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It appears that the Solstice on 21st December is a candidate for mayan calendar ending. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi said many years ago that the Mayans got the date a bit wrong, though it is not known what he said was the right date. However, in 1968 Maharishi said that “everything for the Age of Enlightenment will be in [...]
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Since 1582 the standard world calendar has been the 12-month Gregorian calendar, in which the months have an unequal number of days (28,29,30, and 31) and do not correspond to any cycle of nature. It does not reflect or teach us about the natural rhythms of our journey around the Sun – nor does it [...]
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The Oneness Movement Shifts Gear
Much has happened in the Oneness Movement in recent years. Perhaps 2006 was a pivotal time when it has become clear that with the arrival of Tony Robbins on the scene, a process of change began in a direction that became more and more at odds with the spiritual intention of [...]
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Of the four scenarios described by David Holmgren in his book ‘Future Scenarios’: techno-explosion, techno-stability, energy descent and collapse, only energy descent offers a hope for successful transiton while others are the illusion that many carry as an excuse for carry on as normal. To these scenarios I see that there is another one [...]
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For many months now, the peak oil community has awaited the publication of the IEA’s World Energy Outlook which is due out on November 12th. Earlier this year, IEA spokesmen had said this year’s edition would incorporate a thorough bottom-up evaluation of the world’s oil supply and would not simply base future projections of oil [...]
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